The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-08
CALIFORNIA NABOBS.
stylish Embellishments To he Seen nj
Menlo Park.

IltTttDOuls, Wlluin NuSio VI oo'Dh
or eight miles. saws letter from Men
10 Park. Cal, lived the wealthy Cali
fornians, and those of them who have
kept life and competence still live here,
within easy access of San Francisco.
Menlo Park is a station surrounded by
blended temperate and tropical foil
age, and il has two stylsh-loooking
restaurants. and generally at the COM
ing of trains, there are fine horses and
carryalls waiting here. Not more than
half mile from the station is the resi-
dence of Flood, the banker, who is the
principal man of the former Bonanza
quadrate. Mr. Flood is now we'll
considered man in the best society of
California because his moral tone has
always been conspicuously better than
the example of some of his associates.
Too often the sons of these rich Cali
fornians become profligate and have no
aim in life. Flood has only one folly,
and that is speculation; as was said by
James ", of Scotland, when in his dy-
ing moments he heard of the birth OF
his daughter Mary: "The crown came
by lass and il will 90 by a lass. =" So
if this wealth which came by the stock
exchange, will 90 by the stock-exchange,
even then it must be said that the
judgments of the Lord are good and
righteous altogether. Mr.. Flood seems
TO have established by Il great sacrifice
the axiom that nobody and no pool can
corner the wheat market of this coun-
try. Probably hereafter all such at
tempts will be abandoned and the crops
of the country will go to the seaboard
and be shipped where needed without
this artificial interference, which is
generally attributed to James Keane,
the very man who broke down the bo-
nanza stocks of Flood & Co. He be-
came ruined in New York, and they
have barely escaped disaster in Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Floods mansion is of wood,
painted white. and it has French
tower in the middle and its gables are
thrown up Dutch fashion, like scrolls.
1t is very large and very beautiful
house and | do not agree with some of
the neighbors, who think it is too
white, for amid the dense foliage of
the great park around it this white has
the freshness of alabaster, or even of
Italian marble. The lodge at the front
gate is of the same white tone, and the
stable, some distance in the rear of the
house, carries out the same tint. or
want of tint, and the house which the
Floods occupied while this mansion was
being built still stands in one of the
paths, quite good enough for any man
who has not had a million. Through
out these grounds are arranged very
fine bronze fountains, bronze statues
and groups and especially noble
bronze vases, exceeding in number,
think, as well as in variety. the similar
ornaments in any of our eastern private
grounds. The flower walks run through
the natural growth of live oaks, the
Australian eucalyptus, palm, and ba-
mana, and mixed foliages of the north
ard south, which here come into more
friendly consonance than the native
princes of India and the British aristo-
cracy. For park, Mr.. Flood has de-
veloped one of the most beautiful in
the world II seemed to me that there
were miles of these flower beds run
ming around in sun and shade and
growing equally well in both. He is
said to be the only man out here who
gives the fixed sum of So, 900 every
Christmas to the orphans and the poor,
and this he gives, though Catholic. to
all TIC sectaran institutions in good
standing, without observation-disclosures
the jews. the Protestants, and The Cath
olcs. He is not a selecter OF social
favorites, as Mackay is, taking fancy
here and there, and giving some broken
man start. Mr.. Flood undertook to
warehouse a large part of the grain OF
this coast, and that probably led him
into the idea of cornering it and put
Ting it up in price. Public opinion
charges upon his cashier the buying of
great bulks of grain to the depletion of
those funds the bank required for its
ordinary exchanges and obligations.
Almost adjoining Floods house is
Mrs. Mark Hopkins villa, which was